Inna Gaponenko (also known as Inna Yanovska; born 22 June 1976) is a Ukrainian

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player holding the titles of

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(IM) and

Woman Grandmaster FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(WGM).

Career

She won the European under-16 girls' championship in 1992 and the world under-18 girls' championship in 1994. In 2002 Gaponenko won the European Women's

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Championship in

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. She won the Ukrainian women's championship in 2008. Gaponenko played for the Ukrainian national team at the biennal Women's

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in FIDE Onli ...

s from 1994 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2014. She won team gold medal in 2006, silver in 2008, bronze in 2012 and 2014, and individual gold in 2010 for the best performance on board 4. In the Women's

World Team Chess Championship The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate their continent. It is played every two years. In chess, this tournament and the Chess Olympiads ...

she took team gold in 2013, bronze in 2007 and 2009, and two individual gold medals (in 2007 and 2009). She played also for the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team in the 2013 Women's

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.Inna Yanovska
team chess record at OlimpBase.org

References

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* 1976 births Living people Sportspeople from Kherson Chess International Masters Chess Woman Grandmasters Ukrainian female chess players Ukrainian chess players World Youth Chess Champions Chess Olympiad competitors Place of birth missing (living people) {{Ukraine-chess-bio-stub